Much to my surprise the piece I epoxied in place held fast. After 24 hours I turned on the lathe and bravely stuck my round insert carbide homemade turning tool into the spinning bowl, slowly, every so slowly it started to cut the bowl and bark. I figured the real test would be if I could finish turning the rough out of the bowl. I used a 30 minute 2 ton epoxy and let it dry overnight. I took the piece of bark that broke off and epoxied it to the bowl edge. I’ve seen some woodturners attempt to do a natural edge bowl and have the bark fly off …at that point they trash the project or just turn a regular bowl. I found the piece of bark and figured this was going to be another one of my experiments because I never saw anyone attempt to repair a live edge or natural edge bowl and then finish turning it. Guess they call that “Anger Problem” these days □ Another Bowl Turning Experiment I prayed that I might find the piece of bark and God answered that prayer because I found it immediately! Normally, I would have cussed up a storm and thrown some tools around and maybe even kicked the lathe ….yep, I have a little bit of a temper. Everything was going so good and the bowl actually looked great. Totally my fault, I stuck my Sorby bowl gouge a little too hard into the live edge, that is the bark, and a huge piece went flying! Man, I was so disappointed. My natural edge bowl was starting to take shape. I had some new woodturning tools I was trying and the project took shape fast. it was a quick bugger job, but it works perfectly! And….the lathe didn’t walk across the floor □ I really need to show you a picture of this circle jig for the bandsaw, like most things I do …. It really helped using the circle jig on the bandsaw to cut the blank round and allowed me to make the biggest bowl possible. It was a pretty big piece, as big as my lathe could handle, about 12″. I’m really getting tired of screw holes showing up in my projects, not sure why I can’t keep that part of it straight □Īnyway, I cut a round blank from the maple log and mounted it on my large faceplate. Turning a natural edge wood bowl, mounting on wood lathe.įirst mistake I made was I used a faceplate on the wrong end and I ended up with screw holes in my live edge bowl. I really just wanted to share some quick facts and pictures of doing a live edge and the experiment I did to keep the bark in place. Sorry, not sure how I fell down that rabbit hole. That’s basically how I started and learned woodturning. I had a faceplate and centers that came with the lathe. Got some basic equipment from harbor freight, just had the lathe and some HF woodturning tools. I couldn’t afford a $1000 for a lathe, much less $4000 or $5000 for a good lathe. Whatever it was, I caught the woodturning bug!īig problem though, I was …stil am, pretty broke from being sick for a long time. Maybe I watched a youtube video or something. I don’t think I even read anything about woodturning. I’m not sure how or why I got interested in turning wood, I haven’t been a woodturner since highschool and I barely remember that. Which was next on my list of desired woodworking toys …I mean tools □ Getting Started In Woodturing Haven’t gotten the portable bandsaw yet, but I did get a wood lathe. Same thing, rip open a log and it’s like a piece of heaven. I really want one of those portable bandsaws that allows you to cut a log into useable lumber. This led me to desire 2 different types of machines to work with wood. Looks like firewood from the outside but underneath all that is a diamond worth shining and keeping. Only recently did I get a Laguna 14″ SUV bandsaw with enough horsepower to rip throough some of the wood, and it’s all I can do to keep myself from dragging all the firewood into the shop to cut it open. The funny part is both my wife and I will always look at a piece of wood and wonder what’s inside, what does it look like. Maple log cut into a bowl blank, ready to be attached to a faceplate and will be turned into a live edge or natural edge wood bowl. I burn all kinds of wood, anything really, in my wood stove and that’s how we heat our house for the winter. I experimented with a piece of Maple that someone dropped off for firewood. This is one woodturning project that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time! That would be a bowl with a bark edge or natural edge of the piece of wood for the top edge of the bowl. I wanted to turn a live edge bowl or as some call it a natural edge bowl.
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